Milk-sheet protector.



T. GRINDER.

MILK SHEET PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.30. 1916.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

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Specificationof Letters Patent. 7 Patented Sept. 25, 1917,

; Application filed AugustBO, 1.91.6. Serial-No. 117,697.

T 0 all whom it concern:

Be it known thatI, THEODORE GrBlNDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Perry, in the county of Danefand State of \Visconsin, have invented certain new and useful: Improvements in Milk-Sheet Protectors, of which the following is a; specification.

This invention has relation to devices for facilitating the making of notations upon tabulated sheets or the like, and has for an object to provide a device of the character set forth particularly applicable to use in dairy management; wherein a tabulated sheet known as a milk sheet, is required to be examined and notations thereon made during operations incident to dairy management.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the character set forth in the nature of a receptacle designed to contain the milk sheet therein with means for permitting the removal thereof in whole or part, said device including a rest whereby to support the sheet when notations are made thereon.

In addition to the foregoing my invention comprehends improvements in the details of construction and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings in which similar and corresponding parts are designated by the same characters of reference throughout the several views in which they appear:

Figure 1, is a View in front elevation partly in section of a sheet holding device constructed after the manner of my invention.

to end of the container, with the exception.

of end connecting portions 5 whereby the circumferential continuity of the container is preserved.

Interiorly of the casing 1, there is disposed a removable roller 6 in the form of a vouter"edgeof thecontainer as illustrated in Fig. 2-. A knob. isprovided-with a threaded shank 10 which is. adapted to engage the correspondingly threaded opening in. the closed end 7 of the inner roller, the shank of the knob having clearance within :the aperture of the cap 8, whereby said roller may be rotated relative to the cap and consequently the outer cylinder.

A downwardly inclined writing support 11 is formed integrally or otherwise with the outer cylinder and is adapted to extend from the lower longitudinal edge of the opening 4 in the outer container, the lower edge of the writing support being curved upwardly as at 12 defining a groove to support a pencil or other writing implement. A pair of longitudinally spaced ears 18 are also provided at the rear of the outer container being riveted or otherwise secured thereto, said lugs having apertures whereby threaded fastenings may pass therethrough to secure the device to a wall or the like.

In scientific dairy management an elongated sheet of paper is employed having tabulations thereon which are required to be frequently consulted and notations added thereto during the course of operation in the dairy. This sheet is designed to be contained in the receptacle above described, and to that end the upper terminal of the sheet is secured to the outer surface of the inner cylinder 6 by means of fasteners 14, the sheet is then wound upon the cylinder with its lower end projecting through the opening 4 in the outer casing. To examine any portion of the sheet, it is drawn through the said opening, the roller meanwhile unwinding, and when the portion of the sheet desired is arrived at, and a notation is to be made it is rested upon the writing support 11 and the desired notation made, the writing support serving to provide a backing for the papers. The inner cylinder 6 being hollow, unused sheets may be kept therein. To dispose the sheet back within the container obviously it is but necessary to rotate the knob: 9 to wind up the sheet on the inner roller, in this manner the sheet is ke t clean and whole, and readily accessible w en notations are to be made thereon.

While I have illustrated and described my invention with some degree of particularity, I realize that in practice various a1- terations thereover may be made and I therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the form of the details of construction, or otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts without departing from the spirit of the invention, or the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let 'ters Patent is 4 v A device of the character described in cluding'a hollow cylindrical container, hav- J Copies or this patent maybe obtained for other side tangentially relative thereto, the extension being curved at its extreme outer edge to form a pencil rest, said container having a longitudinally extending opening located at the juncture of the radial surface with the surface of the container, a pair of hangers secured to the container whereby to support the samein a position to dispose the radial surface at an inclination, a roller j ournaled within the container, means for rotating the roller, and acap to close one end of the cylinder.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

I THEODORE GRINDER.

Witnesses: Y l ISAAC F OSSHAGE, THos. AYERs.

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